After Five Years of Ownership, Tryko Partners Refinances PA SNF
Five years after acquiring a 97-bed skilled nursing facility in Easton, Pennsylvania, Tryko Partners is turning to Housing & Healthcare Finance (HHC Finance) to refinance it through HUD. Originally built in 1960, the facility still had a lot of upside back when it was sold by Signature HealthCARE in 2013. It is located directly across the street from the 196-bed Easton Hospital and featured a good quality mix, with 22% Medicare, 11% private pay and the remainder Medicaid. Occupancy was 84% at the time, as well. However, it was an orphan property for the seller five years ago. The operating margin was just around 4% on $8.55 million of revenues at the time of the sale, but Tryko... Read More »
Greystone Deals in North Dallas
Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors represented a publicly traded REIT in its disposition of a 256-unit independent living community in North Dallas, Texas. The property is well located near several medical centers and boasted high occupancy as well. No purchase price was disclosed, but 12 Oaks Senior Living will take over the operations on behalf of the Dallas-based real estate company buyer. Read More »
Brand-New Tampa Development Sells To PE Group
The team of Allen McMurtry, Paul Carr and David Kliewer of Cushman & Wakefield helped a development collaboration successfully sell its two-year old assisted living/memory care community in the Tampa, Florida area. Gulf Coastal Development and Rookis Development (along with operator Watermark Retirement Communities) have a history of teaming up to develop other senior living communities, in addition to other product types throughout the country. Developed at an approximate cost of $19 million, or around $200,000 per unit, this project in the high-growth Tampa submarket of Trinity opened in July 2016 and quickly surpassed 95% occupancy. In its three stories, it features 67 assisted... Read More »
National Health Investors Invests in Michigan
National Health Investors entered into a new relationship in Michigan, after acquiring a pair of assisted living communities from, and leasing them back to, affiliates of Comfort Care Senior Living. The targets were built in the last five years around Saginaw, Michigan, and include a 51-unit assisted living/memory care community in Bridgeport and a 53-unit AL/MC community in Thomas Township. National Health Investors bought the properties for $17.1 million, or about $164,400 per unit, with a cap rate just below 9% based on estimated EBITDA, and leased them to Comfort Care at an average yield of 8.1% with CPI-based escalators. NHI also obtained a purchase option on two additional... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Prices Slide Up With Size
There was a perfect correlation between size of skilled nursing facility sold and the average price per bed in 2017. In general, the smaller the nursing facility, the lower the price, and the larger the facility the higher the price. In 2016, the correlation existed except average prices declined for those facilities over 180 beds in size, according to the 23rd Edition of The Senior Care Acquisition Report. In today’s market those nursing facilities with fewer than 80 beds usually command the lowest average price. In 2017, that average price was just $53,750 per bed, down 13.5% from 2016. There was a significant percentage jump in average price for those facilities with between 80... Read More »
Capital One Closes Holiday Transaction
Holiday Retirement recapitalized two of its seniors housing communities with a single $65 million adjustable-rate loan provided by Capital One. One community, with 241 independent living units, plus a separate wing with 12 assisted living units that is managed by Superior Home Care, is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The other, with 159 IL and AL units was built in 1989. The loan amount comes to about $157,700 per unit. With this transaction (one of many between Holiday and Capital One over the years), Holiday will be able to add other assets to the loan in the future. Read More »
Lenders and Investors Need To See
With so much capital flooding the senior care space, lenders and investors need a better appreciation of what it is they are funding. People like to say that the seniors housing and care industry is driven by demographics, but for the past few years it has been driven by cheap and abundant capital. But to buy it or build it “because I can,” while maybe rational in the moment, does not make long-term sense and usually leads to future problems. So here is my recommendation. For every new lender or investor you have, ask them to do an 8-hour shift in one of your buildings, and I mean doing the dirty work, not just shadowing an employee. First of all, they will have a new appreciation for how... Read More »
The Sabra-Genesis Sales Keep On Coming
Many of Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors’ closings this year have featured a publicly traded REIT divesting skilled nursing facilities (a theme in the past year), which was yet again the impetus for its latest deal. Christopher Hyldahl, Ben Firestone, Gideon Orion and Michael Segal worked on behalf of Sabra Health Care REIT to sell a portfolio of 12 skilled nursing facilities in New Hampshire (7) and Florida (5). The deal is part of Sabra’s strategy to reduce its exposure to Genesis Healthcare. Another tranche of 20 properties in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio sold earlier this year (also handled by Blueprint) for $103.3 million, or about $55,400 per bed. Now, Sabra has thrown off 12... Read More »
Cash Flow Pushes Up Seniors Housing Prices
Many buyers prize a community’s cash flow over many other factors when looking for relatively safe investments that can provide returns to their capital providers. The past three years haven’t reached the record set in 2014 of $14,200 per unit, but in a year where the average price per unit for seniors housing (independent and assisted living) increased, it makes sense that NOI per unit would increase in turn. Driving the NOI per unit up to the $14,200 per unit mark was the assisted living sector, which accounted for 23 of the top 25 recorded values, and very high NOI per unit results, per the latest Senior Care Acquisition Report. The improved existing cash flow seems to have outweighed... Read More »
Greystone Closes Sale in Sunny Southern California
Mike Garbers and Cody Tremper of Greystone Real Estate Advisors headed to Palm Springs, California for their latest sale, representing a publicly traded REIT in the disposition. Built nearly 20 years ago, the property featured four 15-unit assisted living cottages and two 15-unit memory care cottages, for a total of 90 units. It had a history of strong occupancy, which the new owner, an operator with local market presence, will hope to build on. The purchase price was not disclosed. Read More »Schedule a demo
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